My wife and I recently added our first child into the world and decided to breast feed. With breast feeding comes pumping and storing breast milk for later use for the baby. My wife refers to our stored milk as “liquid gold”, it’s a major time and convenience commitment to do it properly. As with any milk, breast milk has a short shelf life so freezing is necessary.

We also live in an area where a lot of the power that comes to our house comes in through above ground lines, so when there is inclement weather we are at risk of short to long power outages. The freezer is inherited from my parents. I don’t know exactly how old it is, but it’s running! I’m sure its days are numbered.

So all of this leaves us in a constant state of worry about our freezer storing this precious commodity. Is there power at the house? Is our freezer dead? IS THE MILK OK?

The old phrase “crying over spilled milk” has never made as much sense as it does now.